Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCHGo, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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